Goofs

After Sully and Peter break into Tip Top Construction and drive off with the snowblower, they stop by the house on Bowdin Street and talk about the place through the rain-streaked windshield, yet the snowblower is nowhere to be seen in the back of the truck.

The snowblower is in the back of the truck under the tarp, handlebars visible as Sully drives back to Miss Beryl's on the night that Carl had already stolen his snowblower back.

After Officer Raymer is punched in the face by Sully, he collapses to the ground against his car with his head in front of the Police seal on the door. When the camera pulls back, Raymer's head and body are positioned a good two feet to the left of the Police seal.

As Sully tosses cinder blocks into the back of his truck, the number of blocks goes up, then down, then up again.

The cigarette in Carl's left hand during the strip poker game appears, disappears, and reappears.

The car that Peter is driving has a West Virigina plate on the front; West Virginia cars only have plates on the rear.

At the end when Sully brings the dog home late at night, the noise awakens Miss Beryl from a sound sleep. She quickly puts on her robe and slippers and emerges from her bedroom with her hair neatly coiffed and wearing lipstick. Nobody wakes up with their hair neat (unless they took measures to preserve their hairstyle while they slept), and no woman in a reasonable state of mind goes to bed with lipstick on.

Sully loses his lawsuit because his lawyer, as the judge says, "fails to prove that the injury in question was caused by negligence on the part of his employer." Injuries at work are covered by Worker's Compensation. Proof of negligence is not required. The mere fact of an injury while working entitles one to compensation.

Bruce Willis name does not appear in the opening credits.

This was on purpose and is not a mistake. Bruce Willis wanted to appear in this film with Paul Newman and reportedly agreed to a substantial pay cut, accepting the union scale of $1,400 per week at a time when he was earning roughly $15 million for his action movies.

When Sully pulls up to his old home at night alone and stares at the house in his headlights, it isn't snowing as it was when he pulled in. As he leaves, it is snowing again but going up in the sky - it is the arrival clip in reverse.

When Wirf bends down to kiss Will on the head in gratitude for the return of his wooden leg, Wirf's supposedly missing foot pops into view.

Some night time scenes were filmed using a filter to darken scenes. BUT this technique leaves the sky blue when in fact the night sky is always black! Further, detail and color (both close and distant) is evident, when in fact it would, should fade, disappear, into the shadows and darkness of the background.

When Sully and Peter are stealing the snowblower from the Tip Top construction yard, Peter has to climb the fence to get in. Once in, Sully throws him a bolt cutter to cut the chain holding the snowblower. Why didn't they just use the bolt cutter to get in instead of climbing the fence? And if that wasn't possible, how did they get the snowblower out?

When Sully catches a ride with Peter and his family, Sully asks Peter if he's still teaching somewhere. Peter confirms that he teaches at "University of West Virginia". That university's actual name is West Virginia University.